Live Play Data

Mirkwood Bats

· Creature — Bat · The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR)

Live Inclusion

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Times Brought

5525

Decks Running

2315

Median Cast Turn

7.0

Drawn → Played

67%

Format

Multiplayer 1v1

First-cast turn

n=788

12%

15%

53%

T6-9

15%

T10+

Median 7.0 P25 5 · P75 8 · max 18

On curve 17% (93 / 788 cast on T4) Cast same turn as drawn 28%

The "good card" funnel

5527 brought · 1911 players

Brought to game

5527

Ever drawn

1176

Reached battlefield

788

Still on board at game end

454

Once cast, 58% of this card is still on the battlefield at game end. This reflects how often it survives removal, not just whether it's a permanent.

≥ +10.0pp

Players who cast this card win 39% of the time (n=714) , vs 25% when it never left the library (n=3694).

When players drew this card but left it in hand, they won 20% (n=352).

Read this as correlation, not as the card's contribution. Casting a card means you lived long enough to cast it, so this gap widens with mana value across every card we track.

Observed gap +13.6pp; 95% confidence interval +10.0pp to +17.2pp. Correlational, not causal: powerful payoffs also get cast more often in games you are already winning.

Final zone distribution

1289 instances

2.0%

Library

35.2%

Battlefield

31.5%

Graveyard

5.7%

Exile

Commanders that played this card

in tracked games

1 Mr. House, President and CEO 166 decks
2 Frodo, Adventurous Hobbit 128 decks
3 Smaug the Impenetrable 108 decks
4 Chatterfang, Squirrel General 100 decks
5 Witherbloom, the Balancer 72 decks
6 Caesar, Legion's Emperor 68 decks
7 Sam, Loyal Attendant 63 decks
8 Ygra, Eater of All 63 decks
9 Marneus Calgar 57 decks
10 Blech, Loafing Pest 47 decks

Card text

Mirkwood Bats

Creature — Bat

Flying Whenever you create or sacrifice a token, each opponent loses 1 life.

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The Lord of the Rings: Tales of Middle-earth (LTR) · Common · Illustrated by John Tedrick

Frequently Asked

Why isn't there more data on this card?

Playgroup Live collects per-card gameplay data from real Commander games. Play counts appear once a card reaches 100 tracked games, and the full charts need a sample of at least 25 observed games that is not dominated by a single pilot. Until this card clears those bars you're seeing only the basic counts. Stats refresh nightly.

How is Playgroup Live card data collected?

Players using Playgroup Live import their decklists before a game and log card actions as they play. Each cast, zone change, and resolution is recorded as a real game event. Stats on this site are computed from those events, not from decklist scrapes or theorycrafting. Playgroup has recorded 780,000+ Commander games overall, and this card-level play data comes from the Playgroup Live seats playing virtual cards, a subset of that corpus.